Posted in match review on Mar 31st, 2013 438 Drinks »
A long day came to a blissful end. Fair play to everybody who managed to get to the Grove eventually. It turned out that I wasn’t the only one experiencing travel chaos. A shorter than usual pre-match analysis sprung to life when the team news came through. “Gervinho’s in”. We didn’t get the full flavour […]
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Posted in match preview on Mar 29th, 2013 324 Drinks »
Thanks to First Great Western a long day awaits. Only they could reroute services around Reading Station on the day Reading are playing at our place and large numbers travelling from the west will face well over an additional hour in each direction. Grumble over. Blogs rock. You don’t get raw life like that in […]
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Posted in comment on Mar 27th, 2013 198 Drinks »
First things first. A massive congratulations to the Arsenal Ladies. Picking up the baton passed on by the NextGen team on Monday night Arsenal’s most successful side in recent seasons booked a place in the semi-final of their version of the Champions League this afternoon. Having beaten ASD Torres 3-1 at home a week ago […]
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Posted in match review on Mar 25th, 2013 157 Drinks »
Well, that was a different way to spend a Monday evening, and a thoroughly enjoyable one watching the U-19’s advance to the Finals weekend of their inaugural NextGen series campaign in Italy over the Easter weekend. The first-half saw both sides eager to close down their opponents and so the ball was moved around quickly, […]
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Posted in match preview on Mar 22nd, 2013 311 Drinks »
If there is something positive to look forward to in this international break, and the associated lack of action for the Arsenal side we would normally be supporting, then the quarter-final of the NextGen Series is just that. Arsenal’s U-19’s have battled through to this phase of the top European youth tournament and will host […]
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Posted in comment on Mar 19th, 2013 319 Drinks »
Posted in match review on Mar 16th, 2013 266 Drinks »
A mixed day for the English in South Wales ended with the Arsenal supporters enjoying their journey back across the bridges rather more than the rugby union fans. Aaron Ramsey in particular will be savouring the events of the day. The former Cardiff City player came on for the final twenty minutes at the Liberty […]
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Posted in match preview on Mar 15th, 2013 275 Drinks »
“For us, anyway, every game is a Cup Final now, and Swansea is always a difficult place to go. We’ll need to repeat the game we had at Bayern Munich. It’s as simple as that.” Arsene understands the importance of this weekend’s fixture only too well. With another enforced week off to follow, courtesy of […]
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Posted in match review on Mar 13th, 2013 230 Drinks »
An hour before kick-off I was scraping the egg off my face having been sucked in by the rumours sweeping Twitter of Arsenal going with a rotated side in a critical Champions League fixture. If only someone had outed Neil Ashton as the source I would have known what utter bollocks it was. Sorry Arsene, […]
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Posted in match preview on Mar 12th, 2013 467 Drinks »
It’s like something out of the alternative Blues Brothers. “It’s 600 miles to Munich, we got Fabianski and Arshavin, no Jack or Poldi, it’s cold… and we’re wearing lederhosen.” Perhaps even Airplane. “Looks like I picked a bad week to give up on Szczesny”. If you didn’t laugh you might get angry, but that wouldn’t […]
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